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HDD Price Update: How the Thai Floods Have Affected Prices, 3 Months Later
New submitter jjslash writes "The hard disk drive supply chain was hit hard late last year when a series of floods struck Thailand. The Asian country accounts for about a quarter of the world's hard drive production, but thousands of factories had to close shop for weeks as facilities were under water, in what is considered the world's fourth costliest natural disaster according to World Bank estimates. That's on top of the human cost of over 800 lives. TechSpot has monitored a number of mobile and desktop HDDs to get a better overview of how the situation has developed in the last three months."
The AC was correct; why are you being belligerent?
Copy-editing is a legitimate job, and the need for more copy-editors is made clear by the prevalence of obvious grammatical errors in major publications. The trouble with being a copy-editor is that your employment depends on the ability of others to admit their faults; people like you illustrate why any form of employment which relies on honest self-reflection is doomed.